UN Security Council president: Israelis and Palestinians need to ‘get back to negotiating table’
She helped lead the backchannel effort to get Israeli and Palestine Liberation Organization leaders in the same room to hash out an interim agreement that was to serve as a basis for peace. Nearly...
New Berlin poster campaign aims to get Germans to recognize anti-Semitic biases
There is no such thing as “soft” anti-Semitism, or put more bluntly, Jew-hatred.
That’s the message from the city of Berlin, Germany, which is in the midst of a poster campaign meant to educate the...
UK police arrest two in connection with Texas hostage crisis
British counter-terror officers have arrested two people in connection with the Texas hostage crisis on Saturday, according to a statement by the Greater Manchester Police.
The arrests came shortly after the attacker, who was fatally shot by...
ISIS conducted 2,700-plus attacks worldwide in 2021
The Islamic States (ISIS) terror organization conducted 2,705 attacks worldwide in 2021, roughly the same number it conducted in 2020 (2,781), according to a new report by an Israeli research center.
The Meir Amit Terrorism...
Nuclear talks in Vienna moving ‘too slowly,’ says French foreign minister
Negotiations in Vienna over a possible return to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement are proceeding slowly despite signs of progress in late December, France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
“They are slow, too slow and...
Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’
A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centered around the Holocaust “stupid.”
Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish Diaspora, made the comments in an...
Holocaust a ‘minor matter,’ right-wing Romanian party claims
A recent statement by the right-wing, populist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party that Romania’s school system should cut back on Holocaust education and focus on “Romanian national values” has caused an...
Obsessed with Israeli settlements, Americans and Europeans turn blind eye to Palestinian violence
The United States and some European nations continue to demonstrate an obsession with Israeli “settlements” and isolated incidents by small groups of radical right-wing Israelis, mostly wayward youths, while completely ignoring the much larger...
Stewart denies calling Rowling ‘anti-Semitic,’ saying goblin comments were ‘lighthearted’
Jewish comedian Jon Stewart denied calling British author J.K. Rowling “anti-Semitic” over how goblins are portrayed in the “Harry Potter” movies, saying on Wednesday that his comments from last month were “lighthearted” and taken...
Dutch government ends donations to terror-linked Palestinian NGO
The Netherlands has ended its donations to the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), following an external investigation into the Ramallah-based Palestinian NGO’s links with a terrorist organization, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLI) reported...